June round-up

When this post is published I hope to be enjoying my time on the beach on Baltic sea, so I am writing this in advance, therefore forgive me if it will not be the exact round-up of my June. So far it has been a good reading month, I joined 20 Books of Summer challenge and I’m making pretty good progress, but I am behind on reviewing and because of my vacation I guess I will fall even more behind. But I keep telling myself that the challenge is to read the books by September, not to review them all by then, so I can plan to publish some of the reviews in the fall to remind me of lovely summer days.

I am also using the challenge to work on my 2017 TBR and as much as I lost faith in finishing all of the books on the list (I simply don’t feel like reading some of them anymore, I just think I should read them, which takes away some of the fun) I think I made pretty decent progress in the first six months of the year.

How is your summer going? Do you participate in #20booksofsummer? How is that going?

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There are some lovely covers there. If you don’t want to read the books, weed them out and have a smaller TBR, no one’s ever got into trouble for that!

I’ve finished Book 8 of my 20Books so nicely on track, although Book 7 was reviewed for Shiny New Books so the reviews / notes on my blog about them will be out of order. I’m reading a non-20Books crime novel and about to start Book9 (I like to have two books on the go at a time).

Thank you! It is lovely indeed, after few rainy days I can enjoy sun at last 🙂
I’m oretty stubborn and that’s why I struggle to not finish books that are not worth it and why I only weed out my TBR once a year when I reset it, but I decided not to be bothered till then.
You make great progress on the 20Books! Reading-wise it is similar for me, but I’m getting more and more behind on reviewing.
Two books at a time is too much for me usually, whenever I try to read more than one book at a time one of them wins and gets all my attention.

I usually do one fiction and one non-fiction, and one downstairs suitable for reading at mealtimes and one upstairs suitable for bedtime and morning – any Persephone or other “lovely” book stays up there, and things that might not be suitable when one’s eating! So it works out OK, but no more than two.

You’re definitely making good progress. I was stressing about the reviews initially, but then I decided that a good, thought through review is better than a timely but rushed one, so I’m giving myself time. That’s also why I didn’t commit to a list initially, but instead decided to read what I fancy and build my list as I go. Have a lovely reading of the ret of 20Books!